Given I'm in a situation similar to OP's — took 4 weeks just to catch up with sleep and dismantle anxiety.
I was approached about a job. The process includes a home assessment with a 5 day deadline. Definitely it's doable, it's a filter yadda yadda.
But I'm asking you if the scene is really swarmed with impostors and bullshitters that you have to enforce people working for free for you to handpick? I call home assessments a tool for locating tractable employees. You know, those who wouldn't mind the OT every 2nd week of the months.
Hell, they already proved motivated working for free when they solved that home task you gave then.
You wouldn't ask the cook to work for free just to taste his dish and then decline without paying him.
You wouldn't do that to a driver either.
To a gardener.
Why the heck does the developer has to jump through those hoops then.
Common security wasn't respected at Vkontakte as well.
The social network was serving plain http login form and internal communication unencrypted until 2013[0].
I reminisce that when Durov was questioned about the abscence of secure connection to the servers, he told it's a too much of overhead and may impact QoS badly.
Some time they rolled out an `always use https` option and buried it deep in the user preferences. Meaning most of non-tech savvy audience kept using the service unaware they are not secure.
The obvious pattern here is they tend to use plain http as a default transport unerminig established security practices.
While there's only one vuln that have been discussed publicly at HN.
The only issue is they are in russian as well.
At least one more was exposed[0] by the same person shortly after, i mean days after the initial.
Over here[1] the same researcher wonders whether any other flaws exist.
And here's[2] how the self-proclaimed `part time-troll` Pavel Durov (the Telegram CEO) reacts to [1]. To me it's obvious he
is being haugty towards HN community with `venerable HN cryptographers`.
To add to his general slandering approach towards competition while handling own product flaws without any transparency and publicity mind his company is now under investigation by SEC[3].
Given I'm in a situation similar to OP's — took 4 weeks just to catch up with sleep and dismantle anxiety.
I was approached about a job. The process includes a home assessment with a 5 day deadline. Definitely it's doable, it's a filter yadda yadda.
But I'm asking you if the scene is really swarmed with impostors and bullshitters that you have to enforce people working for free for you to handpick? I call home assessments a tool for locating tractable employees. You know, those who wouldn't mind the OT every 2nd week of the months.
Hell, they already proved motivated working for free when they solved that home task you gave then.
You wouldn't ask the cook to work for free just to taste his dish and then decline without paying him. You wouldn't do that to a driver either. To a gardener.
Why the heck does the developer has to jump through those hoops then.